# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pak-yong-sik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:40:47.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pak-yong-sik"
name: "Pak Yong-sik"
slug: "pak-yong-sik"
description: "Pak Yong-sik is a senior North Korean military officer and Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) politician, who served as the country's defence minister from 2015 to 2018. Pak is the 6th Defense Minister appointed by Kim Jong Un. Pak is a member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea."
tagline: "North Korean politician and military officer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.88664666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B4%E6%B0%B8%E6%A4%8D"
    title: "朴永植"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "پاك يونج سيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Yong-sik"
    title: "Pak Yong-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Yong-sik"
    title: "Pak Yong-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Yong-sik"
    title: "Pak Yong-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Yong-sik"
    title: "Pak Yong-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B4%E6%B0%B8%E6%A4%8D"
    title: "朴永植"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%95%EC%98%81%EC%8B%9D_(%EA%B5%B0%EC%9D%B8)"
    title: "박영식 (군인)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Yong-sik"
    title: "Pak Yong-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Y%C5%8Fng-sik"
    title: "Pak Yŏng-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%81%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Пак Ён Сик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Yong-sik"
    title: "Pak Yong-sik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20671751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump